European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 4, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                February the stars and stripes Pago 11 Small is not necessarily better could someone please explain Why the Small duty stations always seem to be for gotten for example the 24hour banking system that is often referred to in association with sure we have not seen hide nor hair of with the banking facility As it is with inadequate people who would normally be inter ested in sure pay dont want it because they cant get their Money when they need in such an Energy conscious Are the commissary and food land Miles apart and they Are so Small you have to go to All three because no one car Ries everything you i personally think the men and women of the Neu Ulm area Are just if not More important than other duty Wilemon Neu Germany editors note Delbert Deputy Community Neu replies concerning the 24hour banking sys the automatic Teller machine arms Are funded by the department of at the present Only about 30 arms have been installed in in the funding of As in the funding of any costly priority is going to be placed on installing such equipment where it will be used the unfortunately for our Small Community size and relatively Low sure pay participation Are two factors working against us in our efforts to obtain an we Hope to obtain an atm some time in the when additional arms Are funded and become although we do not have an atm in our you May make application at your local military banking facility for an atm upon and issuance of an atm you would be Able to use any of the installed for those in nearby Augsburg and Stuttgart even though an atm is not immediately available for your sure pay is still the Best pay you can still Cash checks at several locations in the comm and All retail outlets accept Check concerning commissary and Exchange our major constraint is available the Neu Ulm commissary is located at the Offenhausen Supply european edition Rose editor chief Mert editor Elmer fran production Manater Henry Epstein circulation manager this newspaper is an authorized unofficial publication for armed forces the stars and stripes is published in con unction with the armed forces information program of the department of contents of the stars and stripes Are not necessarily the official View of the the depart ment of defense or the european the appearance of displays in this newspaper concerning commercial publications does not constitute an endorse ment of the department of including the military military address the stars and Apo International mall the Start and Postrach 11 10 d6100 Darmstadt Tel Giles hem c prefix 06155 811 m Darmstadt Airstrip prefix 2376 telex new York office room 252 seventh new York Tel area code 212 second class postage paid at new news bureaus Rudl building Carl Schurz Bremerhaven military 8659 or Bremerhaven 68762 Ger Roy building Pulaski to Jelweh military 2226 6585 or Kaiserslautern 0631 52104 John build ing William 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housing area and Wiley Barracks to the the main located at Wiley is conveniently located to most of the soldiers stationed at Neu Woodland is located in the Vorfeld hous ing each facility attempts to Stock As wide a variety of items As possible to make shopping for soldiers and their families convenient limited space in All our retail facilities prevents us from offering the same Range of items that is available in the larger facilities such As Stuttgart or to provide the Opportunity for our Resi dents to visit these larger the Community offers biweekly trips to both these troops to participate in Turk nato exercise Ankara Dpi nato will hold a Winter land exercise in the Eastern turkish Region of Erzurum a military statement armed forces from West Ger Britain and Turkey will take part in the which will coincide with turkeys own Winter the statement letters to the editor cause of problems As the new administration assumes control for the next four we must exam Ine an underlying cause of Many of the problems that face president the cause that i am referring to is the apparent inability or reluctance of Many americans to View the world political spectrum realistic More often than Many americans make two big some ignore Many of the worlds problems because they cant see the relationship Between their existence in the states and expanding soviet Milita others judge the action of american politicians when they Lack the professional background or the facts to do this problem can Best be illustrated by the following example a person who knows How Many Bones there Are in a human body is not necessarily a by the same a person who knows that Ronald Reagan is a Republican is not necessarily a political All too often americans Are satisfied with Short Range solutions to problems be cause a More permanent solution would re quire too much of an Effort or sacrifice for them to be willing to an exam ple of this would be Jerry Fords abandon ment of Vietnam and because most of Pur people were no longer willing to help their doing this saved american lives for the yet this solution also wants language americanized peer would Knock Al ouf of English English London a lord Simon of one of Britain top lawyers and a Grad uate of has urged the he wants to simplify the English language and adopt american spelling anathema to the scholars who consider English the last great cultural legacy of an Empire on which the Sun never apparently taking to heart Winston Church ills dictum that the americans and the British Are two Peoples separated by a common Simon proclaimed in the House of lords English is a Superb but it presents one great difficulty the discrepancy Between spelling and one easy the conservative peer would be to americanize the purists believe it has already been dangerously infected by gobbledygook and ghetto Street the peer should spell honour without the v and drop the second t in words like will and englishmen should not wince at spelling Honor without the v because no less a giant of the language As Benjamin Disraeli had used this literally hundreds of thousands of pounds would be he if the English no longer used capital and Small letters apparently ignoring that american poet Cummings first lit on this idea several decades these sweeping changes in the language of Oscar Wilde and Simon would result in a 25 percent Economy for typists and he urged Reform of the where he said no less than 17 of the capitals and Small letters Bear no resemblance to each irregular verbs should be made regular and the country should return to the 18thcentury practice of saying i we was and they Simons proposals sent shudders through the where the nations Peers often spend As much time debating in the Pristine tones of Oxford English such esoteric trivia As the state of Salmon spawning in Scotland As the state of the lord Airedale of the opposition labor party demurred at any americanization of the the americans May economize a Little in their but they undid this Good work by preferring longer words to the he an englishman leaves his Flat by the lift and gets into his car to go and see a Airedale intoned by Way of example an american leaves his apartment by the elevator and gets into his automobile to go and see a motion lord Kings a bitter critic of transatlantic infiltration of the pro claimed that Anglo Saxon has been neglected since 1066 when William the conqueror became the last successful invader of this sceptred the Battle of Hastings and the introduction of flowery the peer dealt a blow to Brevity from which the English language has never conservative peer lord Bancroft had the last although like Many debates in the it want Clear whose Side he was he cited the example of the great German conductor Hans who lost patience with the second trombone during rehearsals at covent Home of British up with your damned nonsense twice or once i vill but not by he boomed at the unfortunate the Bancroft was far from perfect but the trombonist got the forfeited two countries to the communist sphere of we have another inherent weakness we do not accept the existence of situations or because to do so would require action to change the unfavourable the successful soviet incursions into Africa and the Middle Gulf regions would Bear witness to our the same problem existed in 1914 and it would be Ideal not to have human suffering and All these problems exist and must be dealt with too often these problems Are ignored because they dont fit into our distorted perception of what should this is Why so Many of Pur political blunders Are caused in the first we have elected leaders into office who try to live by the ill conceived notions of too Many Jerry Ford and Jimmy Carter were these kinds of who tried to Lead the people by maintaining their illusion of our Alice in wonderland11 Type of existence despite the bitter realities of the world in which we i am not worried about a United Effort on the part of our people in the face of a very tangible crisis such As present ing an attack Point Blank to our groggy population has always precipitated extremely High Levels of the task at hand is then dealt with with a great sense of urgency and then forgotten some years Down the this always Calls for repeated hopefully the population of the United states will accept the fact that president Reagan is a political scientist and they will not be tempted to encourage the president to ignore problems that we All know with the next four years will be a successful term for president Reagan and also an Awakening of the american we will find ourselves wide awake in the face of truly unfortunate Cir Anthony weeks Germany females tight fatigue Why is it that female soldiers Wear the fatigue uniform so tight that it looks like they will bust open if they Bend Down i have pointed this out to other cos and and they its the com Manders problem or its the first sergeants problem to look at the uniforms of their i have also pointed this out to command ers and the reply i get ill look into and when i see this again on the same Soldier All she says my commander told is there not an a to cover this and Why dont the first sergeants and cos carry it out withheld Germany editors note John military policy and plans Divi replies army regulation Wear and appearance of army uniforms and i Sig provides specific guidance on the fit Ting of army it states that no item governed by this regulation May be altered in any Way that changes the design or the intent of the item unless specifically alteration of the Wash and Wear male of 507 durable press fatigues by female personnel is authorized in accordance with table a the concept of fit for this uniform is therefore alterations to achieve a form fitted uniform Are not Altera Tion of other Type female fatigue uniforms is not it is the responsibility of All officers and cos to enforce Wear and appear Ance standards for military personnel and failure to so should be taken up with the Chain